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This course has four laboratories that can be performed anywhere using simple electronics instrumentation (a multimeter) and inexpensive electronics parts. See lab 1 for more discussion of instrumentation and parts. There is no scheduled time and place for labs. You can do them any time you want between receiving the assignment and the due date, and any place you find convenient. Performing the labs involves obtaining the necessary components (you will have most of them by the end of lab 1), putting together circuits on a breadboard, taking measurements with a multimeter, doing some calculations with your measurements and writing up the results. Extensive written lab reports are not required, nor is a lab notebook. Most lab results can be written on one sheet of paper. Your lab reports have to be turned in the recitation hour on the due date. Labs are group assignments. You can form groups of 2 to 4 students, 2 preferably. Groups will be finalized in the recitation hours. Each group will turn in one report for the whole group. All students within a group are expected to work together. In order to ensure that each individual student obtains hands-on experience with putting together circuits and making measurements, everyone must purchase the components.
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